The following booklet titled “No Verve in Budget Proposals” was authored by H. P. Raina. The author starts with a discerning note on what the Indian economic scenario comprises. Raina then without wasting much of his energy on highlighting the problem chalks out several proposals pertaining to Industry, affecting individuals, miscellaneous provisions backed by empirical and legal data. The aforesaid provisions, according to the author, would merely result in making cosmetic changes and would do nothing to solve the problems of inflation, unemployment and the falling foreign exchange reserves.